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Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System

Posted by Soulskill on from the boy-that-costs-a-ton dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In Britain, where it is custom and practice to charge around £10 for a copy of your medical results, a patient has discovered that his copy will cost him £2,000 because the records are stored on an obsolete system that the current IT systems cannot access. Can this be good for patient care if no-one can access records dating back from a previous filing system? Perhaps we need to require all current systems to store data in a way that is vendor independent, and DRM-free, too?"

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  1. What a fuckup by nighthawk243 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who the hell decided to not do the format conversion when they phased out the old system?

    1. Re:What a fuckup by geekoid · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Accountants.
      At least, if it's like any other large conversion I have been through.

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  2. Re:Single Payer Cost Board Says "No" by h4rr4r · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So 1 person has some trouble getting some old files vs our current system where we let folks with cancer die.

    Yeah, what a terrible tradeoff.